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Quotes Early April 2016

"I believe in nothing. I think nothing is everywhere. But absolute nothing is extremely rare, due to interacting information. According to this theory, the whole universe is where we find absolute nothing, but it is also where we find the most of everything. Nothing is relative, is one way to put it. But there is one form of nothing that is absolute, but not infinite. There are many forms of nothing that are highly qualified, but not absolutely, and only one form of nothing that is absolutely qualified. Asymmetrical concepts like art and construction may gradually overcome nothing in another higher dimension. In this way, nothing is relative to itself! In this way, nothing may simply be a lack of something, a concept that is relative to reality but not unreality. When nothing cannot be relative to unreality and there is only one form of nothing, we get a weakness for constructivism." ----Nathan Coppedge, April 2016


"Metaphysics is unrealized magic. Un-formatted systems of dimensional variables. Forms-out-of-nothing wishing for ex-nihilism." ---Nathan Coppedge, quote that originated ex-nihilism, April 2016 or earlier


"Some question the subject of reality. They do not recognize: Things are as valuable as they are, but they are not as valuable as we assume!" ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016


"Pleasure forgets the origins of functionality." ---Nathan Coppedge, Prophetic Wisdom

"Redemption is the process of regaining wisdom." ---Nathan Coppedge, Spiritual Writings

"I believe in nothing. I think nothing is everywhere. But absolute nothing is extremely rare, due to interacting information. According to this theory, the whole universe is where we find absolute nothing, but it is also where we find the most of everything. Nothing is relative, is one way to put it. But there is one form of nothing that is absolute, but not infinite. There are many forms of nothing that are highly qualified, but not absolutely, and only one form of nothing that is absolutely qualified. Asymmetrical concepts like art and construction may gradually overcome nothing in another higher dimension. In this way, nothing is relative to itself! In this way, nothing may simply be a lack of something, a concept that is relative to reality but not unreality. When nothing cannot be relative to unreality and there is only one form of nothing, we get a weakness for constructivism."
---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016

"Humanity is a genius idea. Pleasure is another genius idea. Pain is a terrible idea." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016 or earlier.

"God is the only one who deals in finite resources. The concept that God is infinitely greater is a delusion. Infinite greatness actually requires infinite gods from a mortal point of view. By the time god is great, humans are immortal. But that isn't the infinite god that we fear or loathe. It is more like God the father or mother, or god the old man and old woman." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016

"The hypothesis of infinite dimensions seems to prove that if each thing in some way 'IS' its own dimension, then on one of the infinite dimensions, the information is always preserved. In other words, there is a whole dimension for every proper object that can be observed." ---Nathan Coppedge, via [ Quora ] April,2016.


"The future overlaps with the past. Out of binary laws comes the idea that past standards are always in some way conserved, while future succeeds in realizing merely some species of development. We can only return to the past, but we can only realize the future." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 10,2016.


"Indulgence is a devil, and indulgence makes one a devil. This is perhaps the greatest insight of approximately 13 incarnations." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016


"Profiting from pain, if necessary, must require permanent gain. If unnecessary, it must require temporary loss." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016


"A little complexity makes for good aesthetics." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016

"If there weren't a limit, however temporary, everything would be perfect or life would have some pretty bad ideas. Some people are betting on bad ideas, and that's why life isn't perfect." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016

"Expect to benefit others if you want to benefit yourself!" ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016

MORE QUOTES:

http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Nathan%20Coppedge

Interface Euphoria 16.0

Fenneled Warbler: The name every bird should have, because everyone loves this name. Think virtual reality, or Earth theme parks.

Finnucane: The drug that does different things, always improving the person. The name may last long after the actor / movie disappeared.

Radical: This can be the standard name for the reticule in a high-level editor or creation game.

Anamathematics: The name for a math system that is all about creating beauty that is so amazing its mathematically difficult.

Temp Module or Modulocracy: The surprising name for a technocracy in which the president is just whoever fits the job description in any given second. And they do it for pay. A pre-req is eliminating the capacity for nuclear war.

Entealism / Entalation: The art form of being ideal entities, such as by evoking, processing, scintillating, and referencing. Kind of an A.I.-can-be-the-personality concept.

Premier Philosophical Research Part 5

I have been questioning my own theories of dimensionality, and I have been wondering if there is some way to reduce the metaphysical dimensionality that we apparently observe in what some call the '4-d world we live in'. In my view the 4-d is not yet consciously visible, as we require different appartuses, such as memory and psychic powers to detect the 4th dimension. Variablistically, it may be even more reducible.

Take for example, the image of birds and humans shown in the diagram to the left. Maybe birds, like humans, have two primary dimensions of perception, a kind of vertical equivalent of the floor-plans of a building? Maybe in their metaphysical dimension, everything can be located in a vertical plane, like the levels of an arcade video game.

Maybe the human world, in short, is abbreviated to a complex 2-d surface, and the higher-dimensional things we have like thoughts and gravity and perception are really variablistic or 1-d structures appended to that initial formula?

Now that we can picture the two competing 2-d versions of reality, what can we do with the third dimension? Isn't it true that filling in the 3rd dimension would permit us to create a being that would live closer to the 4-d world than either birds or mammals?

To solve this problem, what I have thought of is something less limited than the conventional model of finite and infinite numbers. Instead,in addition to these numbers, we get mechanical sufficiencies or perfections, represented by perpetual motion machines, opposed by an opposite concept I call 'retractive phenomenology'. Retractive phenomena is a list of the least problematic things in terms of their problems. Like a perpetual motion machine, it can be seen singly, but in an opposite way. Where the perpetual motion machine is all about the mechanics of significance (logic,  maybe), then the retractive phenomena is about critical examination of perception alone. Where perpetual motion grows by modules and completed units, retractive phenomenology grows by references and variations of perspective.

Now that I have described those four additional areas, maybe we can imagine a 4th-dimensional being. Such a being may travel in terms of right and wrong, completeness or incompleteness, perfection or imperfection, and may also fly and occupy structured information. It is not just the tunnels of fate, but the architecture of fate. The evolution of the hidden world.

There might be a greater role for isometry and hyperbolics, objects made from information we might call magic, and continuous landscapes with localized 'rational' gravity connected by a consciousness network. The virtualization of the virtual and relativization of the relative leads to a place (a 4-d or 5-d place) where experiences are determined by preferences and the legacy of the best magical information. It is a place where life is not very difficult, yet very challenging. A place where perception is primary, and practicality not essential. A place where paradise is ubiquitous and pleasures ubiquitous and moderate.

In short, embracing the 4th dimension involves embracing the complexification of value the way the 3rd dimension embraced the complexification of scale.

More about paradise here: http://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2015/05/paradisal-existence.html

Perpetual Motion Stock Market Prediction #18

17,792.75  107.66(0.61%)


The computers appear to be on auto-pilot, and the effect is not very bad. Either that, or they are getting serious about not making their choices visible in numerology.

Continued role for inventor, particularly since according to my prediction, when the market hits 18,000 there will be a requirement to build perpetual motion.

The numbers themselves read AOG.FF suggesting skipping over some types of big stocks and focusing on new trends.

The numerology for the overall number shows 17, which stands for profitable innovation, and GIB, standing for big funds, government, and virtual reality (issues / concerns / profits).

The small detail GE added to GIB again suggests perpetual motion, and possibly the importance of modeling a perpetual motion machine. Again, the computers may know perpetual motion is possible, but they are restrained because of human intervention or a lack of program.

Architecture is also in the details (increasing real estate values in big cities), and the computers apparently took the advice I gave to focus on big numbers, judging by the 2s and 9s, which symbolize larger-scale mathematics.

The repeated number '7' shows a focus on complexity in the future, which may be one of those flags you can no longer detect after awhile.

Of course, from the Microsoft vantage point, the focus is also on new technologies, but not necessarily perpetual motion.

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Revised Concretist Argument for God

Somehow lost track of this... This is the closest I get to having a traditional religious view.

Possibly it could be seen as an Information Theory view of God.

1. If God is ideal information...
2. And information is manifest essence or un-physical...
3. If matter is therefore defined to be concrete spirit...
4. Then, if we have matter we also have something formed from spirit....
5. That is, the best information
6. Either matter is without properties, or there is potential God, from the spirit of good information.
7. Since matter attempts to realize good properties...
8. And all good we know has consciousness...
9. Where there is potential God in a great universe, there is an actual God.

I may add, the tenet that there are multiple gods is the strongest argument for a human becoming God. And the key alternative to polytheism is nature worship.

Another 666, and 51

Self-explanatory, I guess.

It reads roughly: "A foolish devil..."

I recently formed a Quora blog called "The Foolish Genius"... That can be found HERE: https://nathancoppedge.quora.com/

Someone's Academic Article Using 'Cubist' Software

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.57.5328&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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Happiness Quotes by Nathan Coppedge and Some Others

"Happiness begins with acknowledging that happiness is possible." ----Psychology


"If one does the right thing, this can be the basis for happiness." ---Ethos


"Real problems have real solutions." ---A pragmatist


"You can have infinite abstract happiness." ---Nathan Coppedge


"People who are depressed are so happy they're in shock and they can't realize it..." ---Hannah Larkin-Wells


"One should be a pessimist about pessimism." ---Nathan Coppedge


"One can't FEEL pessimistic about pessimism, because that isn't pessimism ABOUT pessimism." ---Nathan Coppedge


"If pain is not always infinite, then it is NEVER INFINITE." ---Nathan Coppedge


"If you have happiness you can find happiness: so you can cheat with the word happiness. As people say, happiness begins with acknowledging that happiness is possible." ---Nathan Coppedge


"The hardest work is at the beginning no matter how hard it is." ----a psychologist


"Maybe with the right perspective you can feel better." ---a psychologist


"In the information landscape, hyper-morality is all about good intentions." ---Nathan Coppedge


" 'That's not untrue' causes happiness." ---Nathan Coppedge


"They're stupid liars and that's funny: this is a superficial answer, but it works for the mind. Psychologists have always confronted this type of principle very early." ----Gestalt Psychology

Nathan Coppedge answers: "What is life in a nutshell?"

Via Quora:

Life is meaning and morals.

Sometimes there's meaning, and sometimes ethical behavior is required.

If there's no meaning, and no ethics, then it's like there's nothing there.

Maybe art, but that's kind of like being in limbo.

We can try to preserve what we have, but if it's not meaningful, it probably has a moral.

If there's no moral and no meaning, what do we have, science?

Science is logical so it is meaningful, or it's not science.

Everything lies between art and science, and between meaning and morals.

In the middle there's logic. But logic by itself doesn't mean anything unless we know how to apply it.

Another view is the view of philosophers, which is not so different.

We can divide life into Metaphysics, Logic, and Ethics, or we can divide life into Modes, Systems, and Values.

We start with a modality, and if it isn't good, we get punished. 

Sometimes we can preserve logic in a system.

If we don't have meaning we find values.

If we don't have values or meaning we get depressed.

If we avoid depression we find philosophy.

If there are unsolved questions then science and logic get involved, or maybe existentialism. 

That's about it.

Original Link: https://www.quora.com/What-is-life-in-a-nutshell/answer/Nathan-Coppedge

Link to Quotes from Late March

http://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2016/03/quotes-late-march-2016.html

Daunting Levels of Perpetual Motion / Quality Point System (Low is better)

In the process of experimenting with perpetual motion, I have discovered a number of additional degrees which any novice might consider to be expressions of full-blown perpetual motion, but which are really sometimes partial examples. Here is a list for your convenience according to my own expertise with volitional science (both ends of the list may lead to other categories which are less important for perpetual motion science):

Seriously, starting with the less significant and more common discoveries:

7. Over-Unity Magnet Motor: (This is usually a deceptive name) Definition: A motor with inputted electricity that purportedly generates more electricity than it burns. Usually does not run for very long, because it is really using batteries or another power source.

6. Successful Over-Unity Experiment. Definition: An experiment which may provide evidence of over-unity principles. May involve an incomplete horizontal cycle.

5. Successful Perpetual Motion Experiment. Definition: An experiment that proves a principle of perpetual motion. At minimum, an experiment which proves a cycle can be completed. Sometimes this may not involve an actual functional machine due to construction primarily.

4. Trillion-Dollar Discovery: A perpetual motion experiment that gives conclusive evidence of perpetual motion principles if only people knew the facts, and the facts should be obvious.

3. Successful Over-Unity Machine: This is sometimes a step beyond a trillion-dollar discovery because it completes cycles with a verifiable principle. The difference between this and a fully functional perpetual motion machine is a vague one. Sometimes there is no distinction, whereas other times the difference is quality of construction.

2. Successful Perpetual Motion Machine: Not a motor, a perpetual motion machine has an elegant principle and is solidly built, ready to be patented.

1. Successful Perpetual Motion Power Plant: This is a large-scale functional perpetual motion machine that is used to generate considerable power.

I've turned 33 since last October, and this edition on perpetual motion is #33...

Just a coincidence in case anyone is obsessed both with perpetual motion and numerology...

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi33.htm

One of my important experiments on pereptual motion was conducted this year: